Variety (Nov 1927)

%A U D E V I L L E Wednesday, Novmber 80» IMT INSIDE SniFF ON VAUDE Large stockholders of the Orpheum Circuit from all OT«r the eountry fathered In New York last week, dispersed Saturday, leaving for home. Theb* mission east was In connection with the impending r«U«t of the OiplMiiBi throufh BMrgir tMiii K«lth-AllM«. ▲ Kport is that the Kelth-Albee bookers have been Instructed to get ^iiames" for their vaude bills, despite the B. F. Albee letter to the effect that MUnM are set ttmUM tm Mkm b. If th* house ■imfMPi wOl 4o their stuff right with unknown acta. On* house ajHMurentl^ going after names of late In double doses Is the X-A pBJkiOi, tli4i race for names there having coteimenced with tlM return of the Dunaan Sisters. It was during the first week of the Dmnmm tbMt the bopkeni feoeive4 their big name order*, from M6oimtSi - Eddie DowIIng was in his home town last week with 'honeymoon Xjne," ef which he is the writer, stager and star. It had been some years since Ddd'e had called there, with or without a show. Monday JSddle said he had had the time of his life. The town prepared for Ikim in advance and the idiow did a t^fle bntineM, hot Bddie eald Ms enjoyment came fUrom again meeting and mixing in the bunch he need to work with, mostly mill hands. And as Eddie Dowling has never as yet been annojring with an inflated bean, the chances are that Ids fdmer nenip»nti«g enjoyed bin visit oven wmtm no now Hmui their U Hmt Find Out Ifew London, Conn., Nov. S9. ▲ revue-let called "June Time" Is doing the vaude houses. Vie Plant and a company numbering about If, baUyhooed It's ef the '^ine. Wonutn and Song'* s U wr of the Odiun- bia wheel. Nuroe Is giving Vic an ex- amination on the operating 1 4& name In the comee back they'll put my 3 K-A WEDDINGS Daly andTeil Walk Plank Within Week Orpheum Junior Circuit is in n peculiar position on. MOOimt of Btlstaken idea of impoHance. OrearBtatee CMit «t I^Im^M*. Mboldl^ of fialahan * KnU-Publlx, with around nine weeks of j^e booking out of the Ass'n, Chicago, built a large picture houf^ in Rockford, HI^ Corona,da, playing a oomblnatldki band, vaudefllm policy against the Qrphenm Junior's hoose there. Although the OMttt IMrtiS is booked out of the Ass'n offloes. the Rock- f<yrd new house was placed on the black list with the possibility that the entire circuit will now be transferred from the Ass'n agency to the books of Morris Snvers* who already books several Qrent Atato houses •nd nbottt thfos sslld wosfes lor Balaban A Kats. ' For the near SO years Mclntyre and Heath have boon a team they have never advertised to OYor an amount dt $50 in any one edition s( a tinde pnpsn ' Jknd then usually In a Christmas or Anniversary number. No Miter what the veterans had to say, like Ous Sun, they thought 11 sould be ssld and plentiful In a limited space, the lesser the cheSper. But the new ihow bttsiwiiii s4iims tn hn^iP Inn^hPSd Ihs sM boys. A ebuple of weeks aco Mclntyre and Heath had a whole page in Variety, nirbtljii HOt« an in one Issue. Show people were panOsrssa «gpMted (Continued on page 4») opttMnIo hit tho wilhr Ihvno walking the plank. Charles Morrison, K-A agent, married Msis Shaw Kent Nov. 26, with Magistrate August Dreyer of- flciatlng. The bride is the former wife of v^nniam Kent, comedian, and was divorced from the latter fvena weeks ago In Chicago. John DnIy, K-A booker, was an- oth«r bwidlst eC Ikn dsy. Nov. M, Mhris Kennedy, hi New TotiK Oldr. idts K-A hCMit (Mottle A Ml) MMMod Oladys i) Mot. II. Will be issued in December As always^ this special annual issue becomes the yearly index and direc- tory of the show business. Resumes for the year of every branch of the screen and stage will as in previous years appear in the Anni- versary Number. Announcem^ts secure added vahie in the Anniversary Number, through that issue being bound and preserved Reservations lor space Variety's J»ay be any Vnristy office. EMMA CARDS' ESTATE CONTEST; WILL MAY 1£ IN SAFETY VAULT Ubbj McCmiii, AOnuf Fomiar Con^Mtnioii, Be- lieved to Be Beneficiary—Leona dian—Waller Le6pold» Hiitbaiid BETH BERI LEAVES Aa AND CON CONRAD Fiancee SaiM — III Health Given as Cause—^Act Continues Beth Berl, Con Conrad's fiancee and star, sailed suddenly last week on the "Columbus," leaving the act and iMT flanoe flat. MIsn Berl starred In *'A Night of Follies." pic- ture house flash act that refNTesents $10,000 Inveetment to the oong- writer-producer. Conrad states Miss Beri's health compelled the Ikiropean trip for re- cuperative purpoaee. Conrad, eoc-husband of f^nnelne Larrlmore, went into the producing field an sponsor of Miss Berl In a IkMh not wtileh ^ttlekly eaoounterod a auoeeaslon e< legal snags in the shape of attachments, commission claims from his agent, salary claims from dtootaargod n6toiii» otdi spite this, the act kept working, refusing $4,600 straight salary In favor of $4,000 guarantee agalnnt Conrad fortified himself by en- gaging Muriel Strkler as star of another act. Miss Stryker has since gone into "A Night Of FoUies*' in the Berl role. It is now playing the Roger Sherman, New ilayen, for liOew**. Mies Beri. one of the few. If not the only, licensed aviatrlx In the show business, made a featurf of her elty-to»oltr nlr^laii* WghiM, landing eonnldemble front page publicity. Meantime Conrad still has his charge ngalnnt Benjinln agent-manager, pending Magistrates' Courts on agency law violation. Conrad filed allegations with License Commis- sioner Qulgley which David con- tests on the theory be la not an agent, but a I>avid, In the alleged Jennie Wagner lMee Jennie Wagner, the agent, died yesterday (Tuesday) at the Hos- pital for Joint D ie eaeee In New York City. Miss Wagner ntnrted In the *ow business with Hurtig & Seamon, moving Into the agency field some years ago. She has represented many well known show peoploi. A detailed obituary notice will appear in Variety next weMc. s Downey-Pitser Split Manrloe Downey and Pete PUzer, doingr an old soldier turn for two yecurs. have split. PItner la working with n gfarL Incorporations NovrYoHc Famous Speakers, New York City; theatrical booking agency; $20,000. Betty Smythe, Desse Smythe, Tom SkeyhiU. Filed by Keneflok, Cooker Mitchell ft Bass, Buffalo. Wsrner Jsnsssn and His Orches- tra, New York City; muaio for motion picture houeet. Werner Janssen, George Sharp, Sophie Cohan. Filed by F, Wright Mosley, 1600 Broadway. Headlins Pictures Corporation, New York City; motion pictures; $7,(00. David Sacks, Saul Hyams, Jacob Poses. Filed by Shapiro & Sikawitt, (01 Sast 101st etreet. Bronx. Phototons Tallcino Corp., New York City; motion picture films and phonographs; $100,000. Jacob Siegel, Mary G. Siegel. Anna StolL Filed by Mary Q. Siegel, 1440 Broadway. Children'e Saturday Mprnlng The- atrs, New York City; S.OOO shares common no par value. Clare Tree Miijor, Mary c. Donohuor MUanbeth Rockwell. Filed by William R. Mohr, 46 WeatUZtk atreet. 40S rifth Avenue, Brooklyn: $16,- 000. Joseph Horowlts, Julius Oenell. Herman Pekelner. Filed by liovy, Qutmaa A Goldberg, Lafay- ette street. Kodak, Panama, Ltd.. Rochester. $$0,000; motion picture film. Charles F. Ames, Arthur H. Paul, Domingo B. Delntdo. Filed by Kodak Co.. Rochester. The death of Bnnnn Cams caused poetponement thin week of the $4t,« 000 suit brought by Llbby MoCaa% companion to the deceased aetresa for 2$ years, the amount being for servioen rendered during that pe- riod. Miss McCann filed suit in the present action over n year ago, after Mini Onron hnd beee allegedly kid- naped to California and incarcer- ated in a sanitarium upon evidence of Walter Leopold, husband, and Leona Thurber, former vnade per^ former and Miss Cams' guardian. The postponement of Miss Mc« Cann's suit against Leona Thurber, as trustee of the Camn eetate^ was side-tracked upon news of the death, with prevailing, opinions that Mlas McCann may bo heir to the safata natlasatoft afc WMr-iiihi* 000. Libby McCann, a former chorus girl, had l>een a dose friend to Miss Cams for the past qunrter century. She had never been on the actresi^ payroll during that period of eer« vlea but eatering to nirneeds, with Miss Cams placing herself upon record among friends that Misa McCann would be adequately taken care of during her (Mlii QilnMf) life and would also bn pr^MM for In thoaetiress' wia Claim Will Intimates of the flsesnsid nolfesi and Miss McCann claim a will was made in 192S, prior to Miss Carus* marriage to Leopold, making Miss McCann sole bensMnry of IM» estate. Upon receiving news of Miss Carus's death Miss Thurber left for California but is <nSogsttfii Sp %• on her way back to lrt<t Oi| ft 0i» of Miss McCann'e. Miss McCann was precipitated ta legal action after Miss Thurber nnd Walter Leopold had taken Miss Carus to the California sanitarium, and are said to have given orders none of the actress' former friends be allowed to visit her. SimuN taneously Miss McCann was out of hoins iind other means of being pro* vlded'lbr. Hence the. suit. Miss Carue Surprtsed Some months after Miss McCann hnd loonted enaet whei^^^nbonts st (OonthMMd on pn#i Mi mmmmmmmmmmi^immmmmmmmm^mmmmmmmmmmimim ' mm BU-LY MARII winaiidHAiqni^ A Likable Sirmigkl who has IT f 9 HIBBIIT and HARTHAN Miss Marie Hartman World's ChampkM Delirvering Clean Comedy Drives cdwaye the length of the theatra a Deadly 6uro Audience Approach, Positive Pereonality PuttOk a Straight Pitch for Laughs* Thn jpobby Jeaes «€ Om thsnlrs.